400 @ 6:28, 200 @ 3:08 gives me a Critical Swim Speed of 1:40/100m in this particular 25m pool. Seriously, the conditions are so vastly different in each pool here (and then also so much better in Kingsley's!) that I'll need to do one of these for each different pool.

Sunday - March 9

Bike

48m 30s

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This was supposed to be some specific kind of bike but it pretty much just turned into a recovery spin some time after the run.

Run

45m 10s

6.00 kms

07m 31s /KM

"long" run for the week (Barry 3-2-1). What's deceptive, though, is that the run is straight down and then straight up on an incline steep enough that it's very difficult to get a road bike up (or a manual car without stalling).

Saturday - March 8

Friday - March 7

Bike

36m 21s

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Hard, higher cadence after a short warmup and then cool-down to the FINE PIGLETS of the GRAND PRIX SAMYN in Belgium, another spring classic. Hardest I could have ridden if it were for an hour (without running after).

Thursday - March 6

Morning nekkid wakeup. Invaluable in Kingsley's absence. Then again, Kingsley is afraid of me in the mornings. Rightly so.

Bike #2

10m

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Post-dinner spin instead of walk. I get eaten out there if it's dark and dengue's on the rampage again here in Bali (and still in Jakarta).

Run

30m 03s

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Sunset run. Such beautiful small stork-like birds but in colors of white, flamingo pink and black flying in flocks overhead.

Swim

45m

2000.00 meters

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There was how this swim was supposed to go, and then there was how this swim actually went. It didn't help that the pool was the consistency, temperature, and taste of bad soup. At least the water level was nearly to the edge--that is, a yard high (level is a meter). When it's low, it's a great training pool for beginners. Yeah, the chop makes your form kinda go to shit, but you gotta try harder to hold your shit together--plus, unless you keep a high elbow underwater, or if your legs sink, your appendages will be dragging on the bottom.

Before I left for Perth in January, I looked EVERYWHERE for my "good" training goggles. Today, I found them in my swim bag. WTF were they exactly where you would expect them to be? I don't operate like that!

Strength

25m

Actually yoga, but that's exactly what I do it for (and easier visually to see the balance and addition of strength training on the graph this way).

My joints and body were CRYING out for this. I really cannot afford to let it slip, especially when I'm upping training! Must! Learn!

Sport

Aqua Jogging

10m

That's what I do after I swim. Swapped it for a 10-min postprandial waddle. Now aquajogging is harder than an equivalent-land run, both physically and mentally. I'd say 10min solid aquajogging is still harder than 15min easy running. But not as hard as 20.

Swim cords, conversely, are RIDICULOUSLY harder than swimming. Those who do, know.

This is the pool I often train at in Bali. Note that filters blowing water into the pool will blow you both down the pool (at least current is +/- equally) but also across. Pool is less than 1m deep, no gutters. FUN!

Wednesday - March 5

Just a nekkid cycle (okay, flipflops) when I woke up to get the blood moving. Already better than yesterday but I have to get physically going (in an easy way) to get the mind even remotely conscious.

Bike #2

1h 01m 02s

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To the piglets of one of the spring classics! And a classic rider won it. :) What a show. It was awesome. Riding about half spin, half hard today in intervals.

Run

30m 05s

3.50 kms

08m 35s /KM

Swim

05m

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Really wanted to go for 10, but again, 5 was it.

Sport #1

Walking

10m 12s

Post-breakfast walk. I'm walking for 10 minutes after every major meal. Why? Because it's good for you. And I saw so many beautiful butterflies, of every kind! Orange with black, lime green, yellow, white, black with iridescent green-blue ribbons, plain old brown ... just hauntingly lovely. I guess it's the season for them. Spring? End of rainy season?

Sport #2

Walking

10m

Post-lunch walk.

In the evening now ... I would take my newly customary postprandial waddle, but that would require putting on clothes, and I'm just not that fond of clothes.